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      Matveyevskoye: the Setun and Matveyevsky Forest

      ⏱ 5 h 15 min🚶 9.1 km🍽 2📍 5 stops
      🏃 A lot — over 7 km

      The Setun valley — an almost wild river in the middle of the city: from the church of the former patriarchal village of Golenishchevo through Matveyevsky Forest to a nature reserve with a trail along the water.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre
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        🏛 Trinity Church in Troitskoye-Golenishchevo
        Мосфильмовская ул., 18А
        A five-domed mid-17th-century church — all that remains of the country estate of the Moscow patriarchs.
        Start — Lomonosovsky Prospekt metro, 25 minutes on foot along Mosfilmovskaya. The church stands above the Setun valley, on the site of a patriarchal estate.
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        Trinity Church in Troitskoye-Golenishchevo
        © Shesmax · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • The stone church was built in 1644–1645 to a design by the Nizhny Novgorod architect Antipa Konstantinov.
        • It is a tented church — the kind built until 1653, when Patriarch Nikon banned tented roofs.
        • In the late 14th century, at the confluence of the Setun and Ramenka, Metropolitan Cyprian had a country residence here.
        • In 1812 Napoleon's soldiers made a stable in the church, and the old iconostasis was lost in a fire.
        • After the closure in 1939 the iconostasis was taken by Sergey Eisenstein for filming "Ivan the Terrible" — it was never returned.
        • In Soviet years the church housed a warehouse of a cardboard factory, State Radio and TV offices, and a waste paper collection point.
        • According to legend, the huge oak by the Ionin spring was planted by Metropolitan Jonah himself; it was cut down for firewood in the winter of 1941.
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        🍽 Antep Sofrasi restaurant
        Минская ул., 2Г, корп. 1
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        Lunch: pide, lahmacun, beyran, kunefe for dessert. No alcohol on the menu.
        🍴 A small restaurant serving the cuisine of Turkish Gaziantep, near Minskaya metro, with a QR-code menu. What to order: pide, lahmacun, beyran (spicy lamb soup), künefe.
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        🌳 Matveyevsky Forest (Matveevsky Les)
        между Староволынской ул. и Минской ул.
        A patch of old forest with oaks and lindens on steep slopes among residential blocks.
        Old forest on the slopes — trails lead down to the Setun. Comfortable shoes are needed.
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        Matveyevsky Forest (Matveevsky Les)
        © MBH · CC BY 4.0
        • Matveyevsky Forest covers about 100 hectares; it is also called Volynsky.
        • The forest is part of the "Setun River Valley" nature reserve, and in 1991 the valley together with the forest was declared a natural monument.
        • The average age of the local spruce and pine stands is 50–60 years.
        • Birds of the forest include the song thrush, red-breasted flycatcher, goldcrest, bullfinch and red-backed shrike.
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        🌳 Setun River Valley nature reserve
        Матвеевское, долина Сетуни
        A long nature reserve in the river valley: meadows, ravines, springs and patches of old forest.
        A nature reserve: the river winds between high banks, with a trail alongside.
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        Setun River Valley nature reserve
        © Gennady Grachev from Moscow, Russia · CC BY 2.0
        Setun River Valley nature reserve
        © Gennady Grachev from Moscow, Russia · CC BY 2.0
        Setun River Valley nature reserve
        © Gennady Grachev from Moscow, Russia · CC BY 2.0
        • The 696.2-hectare reserve was created on 21 July 1998.
        • The Setun is the largest right tributary of the Moskva River: of its 38 km length, 17 fall within the reserve.
        • The reserve includes two large forests — Matveyevsky (about 100 hectares) and Troyekurovsky (about 20 hectares).
        • 69 bird species nest in the valley, and of 384 plant species 47 are rare for Moscow.
        • The Church of the Saviour Not Made by Hands on the Setun was built in 1673–1676 on the orders of the boyar Artamon Matveyev.
        • The last time a grey-headed woodpecker was seen in Matveyevsky Forest was in 1975.
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        🍽 Germes restaurant (Hermes)
        Нежинская ул., 11 (ТЦ «Планета»)
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        Dinner: gyros, moussaka, muhammara. It's 10 minutes to Matveyevskaya MCD station.
        🍴 A Greek bistro in Matveyevskoye with a big bar menu. What to order: gyros, moussaka, muhammara, baked sweet potato.

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